Fitness Tips from one of the leading Health and Fitness Clubs

Home fitness: it's mostly in your own hands!

Plan to keep fit.

Its hard to over emphasise the importance of recreations, especially physical recreation in any health and fitness plan.

You can't keep fit by accident, it has to be part of a deliberate plan, combining exercise with diet.

It's hard to do it on your own so enrol your family into your project, join a fitness club - don't be embarrassed: the churchyards are full of people too embarrassed to stay alive.

Make a Start

There's nothing to be gained by procrastination and everything to gain by making a start before things get harder.

Fitness after 50 is a maintenance task. Get into a fitness routine

If you're due in the gym today, or to take a bike-ride, don't even think about it; just go. There's always a reason to delay.

Exercise can be boring: ring the changes, use the bike one day, take a swim the next. Check out Max's tips for an effective fitness programme

Don't let pride or embarrassment get in the way of an active retirement. The graveyards are full of proud people.

Don't kill yourself!

If you're really going for it , raising your heartbeat by about 40%, then ten minutes is enough.

If you're doing light exercise - walking the dog - you need at least 30 minutes each day or a minimum of two hours a week.

Eat well.

Obesity is the downfall of so many of us. Our nutritional advisor, Max Lewis gives you some tips on how to manage

• Living alone
• Food on the move
• Eating out

Give yourself a break.